Tag: hair colour

• An Achilles Heel?

    I’m going to go out on a limb and suggest that the average person, even if they’re only vaguely aware of Homer’s poems The Iliad, or The Odyssey, even if they are mildly conversant with the story of the siege of Troy and the Trojan horse, even if they have sort of heard of…

  gozzter

  April 29, 2020

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  Achilles, Aeneas, ancient Greece, colour words, Forbes, hair colour, Homer, Odysseus, race, racial origins, Sarah Bond, skin colour, the Iliad, The Odyssey, Tim Whitmarsh, Troy, University of Cambridge, University of Iowa

• The Tresses of Her Hair of Gold

  I wish I could tell for sure, you know. I’m even afraid to compliment my friends on their hair nowadays for fear of getting it wrong –the colour, I mean. I’ve never been very good at colours, though; to me, hair is red, brown, black, or blond… and grey, of course –although I seldom see…

  gozzter

  February 28, 2018

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  BBC News Magazine, Blondes, CEO, Eileen Carey, expectations, family doctor’s office, hair, hair colour, hair dying, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Pattern recognition theory, résumé, Silicon Valley